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October 23, 2009

Ice skating bear kills Russian circus hand

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- A bear on ice skates attacked two people during rehearsals at a circus in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, killing one of them, Kyrgyz officials said Friday.

In the incident, which happened Thursday, the 5-year-old animal killed the circus administrator, Dmitry Potapov, and mauled an animal trainer, who was attempting to rescue him.

"The incident occurred during a rehearsal by the Russian state circus company troupe which was performing in Bishkek with the program, Bears on Ice," Ministry of Culture and Information director Kurmangazy Isanayev told reporters.

It is unclear what caused the bear to attack Potapov, 25, nearly severing one of his legs while dragging him across the ice by his neck. Medical personnel were unable to save Potapov, who died at the scene.

The 29-year-old circus trainer Yevgeny Popov, who attempted to rescue Potapov, was also severely injured, according to doctors.

Add this to the list of ways I do not want to die. I really don't want to be killed by an animal, especially a bear on skates. I wonder how close he got to the bear. I can't really see the bear speed skating over to him, checking him into the boards and then taking him out.

3 comments:

did anybody think that maybe the bear didn't feel like ice skating that day? maybe just like us he was having a bad day and didn't want to go to work and the first person that irrated him he just snapped on... poor bear got shot all becuz he couldn't call in to work sick